EDUCATION DISTRICTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16842, 28 April 1915, Page 11

EDUCATION DISTRICTS.

THE BOUNDARIES COMMISSION

[Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON; April 27. The Education Boundaries Conimis&ion, set up to inquire into and recommend tho constitution of new education districts, met here'to-day. The personnel is:—Mr A. D. Thompson, Assistant Publio Service Commissioner (chairman), Mr G. M. Thomson, Mr G. Hogben, Mr J. Strauchon and Mr D. Petrie. The meeting was held in camera, and the Minister, of Education conferred with. the members'.

It was decided to begin taking evidence in.the South Island, and the Commission will leave to-morrow evening for Invercargill. ' Evidence will be taken there on Friday and at Dunedin on Monday. These are the only dates definitely fixed, but the Commission will go from Duncdin to Timaru, then to Christchurch, and afterwards to Westland and Wellington. It was decided that tho Press should • bo admitted to the sittings at •which evidence is to bo taken. It was also decided'-that the evidence taken by th© Education Commission in 1912 and by the -Parliamentary Education Committee last year relative to boundaries should bo taken as evidence for tho purposes of the present Commission.

SOUTH CANTERBURY DISTRICTS, [Per Press Association. 1

TIMARU, April 27. Meetings of householders on Monday at most places passed resolutions protesting against the abolition of the South Canterbury Education district. At Wairnate it was suggested that the district "should be enlarged by adding Ashburton County.